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Examples of functioned in a Sentence
A raucaria Bidwillii, the occurrence of small foliage-leaves, which have functioned as bud-scales, at intervals on the shoots affords a measure of seasonal growth.
The ICL functioned well into the 80s, attracting a small clique of The Knowing into its shadow.
Some scholars suggest the penis sheath functioned as a threat or dominance display in battle.
This symbolic role functioned relative to notions of social organization, delineating or invoking the fundamental limits of social praxis.
Here the spent troops rested; here the army of Craterus joined them, and Nearchus came to announce his safe arrival at the entrance of the Persian Gulf.2 The machine of empire had not functioned altogether smoothly while the king had been absent, and on Alexander's re-appearance many incapables and rogues in high office had to be replaced by better men.
He did not believe that the conscious and subconscious functioned in opposing ways and that, in fact, dreams were a way to see how we truly felt since we think the same way when we are asleep as we do when we are awake.
A year later, a French company commercially manufactured the Atmos 1, which functioned by way of a mercury and ammonia bellows power system.
Better clockwork components and improved technology produced smaller, less-bulky wooden models that traveled easily and functioned like a dream.
While the feat marked a milestone in aviation history, the true benefit was that the aerodynamics lab on the first floor was able to test and observe how the wings functioned during flight.
What was surprising to original viewers of the show was that originally, Counsellor Deanna Troi functioned at bridge command staff, ludicrous from a contemporary point of view.
The Feast of Holy Innocents became a regular festival of children, in which a boy, elected by his fellows of the choir school, functioned solemnly as bishop or archbishop, surrounded by the elder choir-boys as his clergy, while the canons and other clergy took the humbler seats.
The films were often subtleallegory of the totalitarian society, and they functioned as a subversive voice within the state-controlled production.